Western Digital My Net N900 HD Dual-Band Wireless Router Review

Western Digital Introduces New My Net Family

Western Digital is best known for its hard drives, but the company is far from a one trick pony. Back in 2008 the company introduced the popular WD TV series of media players and successfully moved from making products for inside your computer to inside your living room. Now that WD has successfully established that brand line they are branching off again and entering the wireless networking market! WD believes that they can bring something new to the table and help spur innovation in the wireless networking market. Many might wonder how WD would be able to do this, but if you consider the companies expertise, it starts to make sense. WD certainly knows about storing and streaming data, so broadcasting it shouldn’t be that large of a hurdle. It also wouldn’t come as a shock it WD makes an all-in-one device that is a media player that stores data and also acts as a wireless router for the home.

Yesterday, WD announced the My Net brand line, which was initially launched with five dual-band wireless routers that range in price from $79.99 to $349.99 and an 8-port Gigabyte home entertainment switch for $69.99. All of these products are said to make watching online movies and playing online games a better experience for consumers.

Shown above are the five new “My Net” wireless routers and their general features (click to see full size). The WD My Net family includes 3 dual-band Wireless-N routers and two dual-band storage routers (1TB or 2TB). All of the My Net devices shown above are available now with the exception of the My Net N900 Central, which will be made available next quarter.

The
device that we are focusing in on today is the Western Digital My Net
N900 which is a dual-band router specifically designed and optimized for
movies, games, video, music and other multimedia and entertainment
services. This HD dual-band router is rated at 900 Mbps Wi-Fi speed (450 + 450 Mbps) has 7 Gigabit ethernet ports, two USB ports and a retail price of $179.99. Let’s take a closer look and unbox this router on the next page.